166 Dr. C. J. F. Major on Fossil Monkeys found in Italy. 



of late, voices have been raised in England which admit that 

 the same thing may be true for that country also*. 



As to the Val d'Arno, at present, incontestable evidence in 

 support of the assertion that these two genera of Proboscidia 

 coexisted is still wanting. 



With regard to the Macacus of the Val d'Arno, I think I 

 may assume that it was contemporary with Rhinoceros etruscus^ 

 Elejyhas meridionalis^ Bos etruscus, Falc, and a horse which 

 I cannot distinguish from Equusfossilis^ Owen — at least as it 

 is described by M. Riitimeyer, from the volcanic alluvia of 

 Auvergnef. The same marly grit in which the fragment of 

 the jaw of Macacus belonging to the Museum of Milan is im- 

 bedded covers and fills the remains of the above-cited Mam- 

 malia preserved in several museums. 



Fossil Monkey from Monte Bamholi. — At the meeting of the 

 Geological Society of France, in November 1871, M. Gervais 

 mentioned a monkey found in the lignities of Monte Bam- 

 boli, in the Maremmas of Tuscany if. The mandible in 

 question is deposited in the Museum at Florence ; according 

 to M. Cocchi it seems to belong to the genus Cercojnthecus^. 

 We are expecting its publication by M. Gervais. 



Fossil Monkey from Mugello. — Lastly there are in the 

 Museum of Pisa some separate teeth of the lower jaw, a 

 hasty examination of which seemed to me to indicate a species 

 of Macacus which might be different from the two specimens 

 from the Val d'Arno of which I have just been speaking ; 

 as to the determination of the genus there can be no doubt. 

 These specimens consist of two last lower molars, right and 

 left, a first or second lower molar, a premolar, and a frag- 

 ment of a canine, the whole having probably belonged to the 

 mandible of the same individual. These teeth are derived 

 from Mugello, in the Val d'Arno, from a lignite that M. 

 Meneghini considers to belong to the Pliocene. By M. 

 Meneghini's permission I shall shortly be able to give a de- 

 tailed description of these remains in the Memoirs of the 

 Society. 



* E. Ray Lankester, " Contributions to a knowledo:e of the newer Ter- 

 tiaries of Suftblk and their Fauna," Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvi. 

 1870, p. 498. 



t L. Riitimeyer, " Beitrage zur Kenntniss der fossilen Pferde und zu 

 einer vergleichenden Odontographie der Hufthiere im Allgemeinen," p. 01 

 (Verhandl. der Naturforsch. Gesellsch. in Basel, Bd. iii. Heft 4, 1863). 



\ See ' Revue Scientifique,' No. 25, Dec. 16, 1871. 



§ See ' La Nazione di Firenze,' February 27, 1872. 



